" And so, we can say without much room for debate that the church building represents the ornamentation of a society which has become thoroughly infiltrated by the spirit of the faith. It could not have appeared before this point, which is to say that the church is the "fruition" of the long organic process of conversion, and it implies a preceding period of growth and cultural flowering, nourished by real and deep roots. "

― Daniel Schwindt , The Case Against the Modern World: A Crash Course in Traditionalist Thought